Birthday Party

So, the birthday party was tons of fun! Most of our friends and family were there, but we were missing a few important people. Some we got to celebrate with later. I had lots of fun decorating and had lots of help thanks to Carrie & Mom. So, here are the pics as promised. My Mom made the cake and I decorated it, it turned out really well. It was so much fun, I love birthday parties!

Brookville Camping Trip 2010

So, for the last several years we’ve been going camping in Brookville, IN with Gretta’s Grandma & Grandpa Welch, Paps & Grami (Gretta’s Great Grandparents) Uncle Caleb and us. We have a lot of fun together. This year I tried a couple new recipes with the Dutch oven, both took longer than expected but turned out to be really delicious, if I do say so myself :p

WOW...it has been too long!

So, it has been too long since I've blogged about Gretta. We are all doing great. She is growing like a weed. She changes all the time. Her vocabulary is unbelievable to me. People ask me all the time what does she say, if you can say it she can say it and she probably will, so be careful :)

She knows the alphabet song and can count to 13. She definetly knows the colors pink, blue and brown. We are still working on the rest. When in doubt she picks pink. Such a girl!

We had the Toy Story Birthday Party, it was a blast! I will try to post some pictures. We went to the State Fair last week with Sara & Noah which was really fun too. We've been camping in Brookville which was more fun with Gretta this year.

She is such a joy to have and I love watching her personality develop more each day. I love it!! Well, I gotta go, but hope to write more later.

Toy Story Mania!!

Yeah!! Toy Story 3 came out this weekend. Awesome movie, loved it!! We took Gretta of course. It was her first movie theater experience and she did great. Her reactions were priceless.

We started the weekend on Thursday hanging out with our good friends at the Weigand’s (Aubrey’s house). We had a big Toy Story event to build up to the big movie premiere on Friday. We had Toy Story cereal & cookies. We ordered pizza from Pizza Planet!! And we had the green alien juice from Toy Story 1 movie. It was so much fun. PLUS we viewed both Toy Story 1 & 2 (kind of). It was tons of fun. Our friends Matthew & Kelli got each of the girls a Toy Story flashlight, Gretta’s is the character Bullseye, she loves him. We already had character dolls, Buzz, Woody, Jessie, Bullseye, and now a Bullseye flashlight.

We also now have Toy Story pj’s and 3 Toy Story T-shirts. I LOVE IT!! And I must admit I have went a little crazy with it, but in my defense these things are EVERYWHERE and she gets so excited when she sees them. I can’t resist! And she has more Toy Story coming for her birthday!! Her birthday theme, of course, is going to be Toy Story. I can’t wait! We had a great time at the movie and I would highly recommend everyone go see it!

The picture of Gretta above is after the movie, she is holding all of her Toy Story dolls. So, cute!!

To infinity & beyond!!

One More Thing!

Can't wait for the Toy Story 3 Movie coming out June 18, 2010!! We are going on Saturday, June 19th!! It will be Gretta's first Movie Theater experience. Can't wait! She is going to love it!!

Summer is HERE!!

We had a great weekend! We got to spend lots of time with friends and family. Gretta got to spend lots of time with her good friend Aubrey, which is always a good thing. She actually cried on our way home on Friday, because she didn't want to be away from her and the first thing she said Saturday morning, Sunday morning, and Monday morning was "Aubrey". So, it was a fun weekend.

Gretta also went on her first boat ride out on the Pontoon, she had her very FIRST boat ride on Friday on a little fishing boat with Joel, Daddy and Aubrey. She did really well. She loves the water. We have been playing in the sprinkler, the hose, the tub anything that can hold or spray water, she wants to do it.

She has really been changing. I think she has really changed this weekend. Last Monday, I didn't think she looked 2, she still seemed so little. But as of Saturday night, she started to look older to me, she looked 2!! I don't know what happened. And she talks all the time, if you say it she can say it! It is sooo CRAZY!

Below is a picture of Gretta coming in after running through the hose when I was watering the garden. She doesn't look very happy because she didn't want to come in. But it was getting late and the bugs were coming out. She was soaked!

Anyway, we are all doing great! Just wanted to bring you up to date!

Update

Okay so I need to apologize for missing the whole month of April. I knew it had been a while, but WOW a whole month, anywho here is what has been happening.

Easter - tons of fun this year loved hunting for the easter eggs that afternoon. We hid a few in the morning before church as well. Those not too excited seemed a little annoyed that I kept bothering her to go find another egg. Funny!! We got most of it on video. We can tease her with it later in life I am sure.

New York Trip- We went to visit Aunt Cally, Uncle Mark and the girls in NYC. Lots of fun!! Can't wait to go back. I am working on putting our pictures together from the trip. You should see them soon.

And of course wrapped up my training for my 3rd Mini Marathon 13.1 miles. Completed it with a personal best time!!

Gretta has been doing a lot more talking. Putting phrases together and just started asking "why?" occassionally.

We are only 3 months away from her 2nd birthday, the planning has already begun!!! So here are few pictures for you to enjoy!! I love that little girl so much!!!